David Preston discusses open-source learning in this video from TEDxUCLA. Preston holds a doctoral degree in education policy from the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Science. He has taught at universities and graduate institutes and consulted on matters of learning and organizational development for 20 years. For the past seven years, Preston has also taught English for students of all ability levels in grades 9-12 in Los Angeles…
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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December 17, 2012A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from Salman Khan’s online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. In The One World Schoolhouse, Salman Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his…
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December 5, 2012In this Morning Edition segment, National Public Radio (U.S.) examines how online college courses, now attracting hundreds of thousands of students, are forcing colleges and policy makers to rethink the delivery of higher education.
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December 5, 2012Open-Source Technologies for Maximizing the Creation, Deployment, and Use of Digital Resources and Information by Shalin Hai-Jew highlights the global importance of open-source technologies in higher and general education. Written for those working in education and professional training, this collection of research explores a variety of issues related to open-source in education, such as its practical underpinnings, requisite cultural competence in global open-source, strategies for employing open-source in online learning and research,…
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December 4, 2012Rice University-based OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Its free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet course scope and sequence requirements. Through partnerships with companies and foundations committed to reducing costs for students, OpenStax College is working to improve access to higher education for all.
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November 26, 2012The Chronicle of Higher Education examines Professor Stephen Duncombe’s Open Utopia project, a free online version of Thomas More’s Utopia that anyone can browse and annotate. An example of what’s sometimes called “social reading,” Open Utopia demonstrates how a book can be a shared, interactive space where readers can record reactions and converse.
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November 13, 2012Behind the hype of the “virtual university” lies real change in the way practitioners approach university teaching. Changing University Teaching, edited by Terry Evans and Daryl Nation, focuses on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have come from–or themselves influenced–the development of educational technologies.
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November 12, 2012The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles dot-com billionaire Michael J. Saylor, founder of Saylor.org, a nonprofit online university that offers students a free, one-stop shop for self-paced college courses. Saylor.org aggregates free content offered by open-source providers, including MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Yale Courses, and organizes it so that students may pursue a continuous sequence of courses in a major.
